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2014 was a pretty bleak year for Bandai One Piece Figuarts Zero collectors. I’ve gone over how disappointing the year was ad nauseam, so rather than talk myself in circles, let’s just accept it: Figuarts Zero One Piece 2014 was a bust. But while there are definitely no certainties, we at least have hope that 2015 will be a better year. And that hope was strengthened by this weekend’s Tamashii Nations 2014 event, in which Bandai Japan showcased a ton of potential new One Piece Figuarts Zero figures, including two dearly-missed friends: the One Piece Figuarts Zero Vivi and Carue figures!

Do you love collecting One Piece figures, but the figures in your collection just aren’t big enough for you? Have you been dreaming of One Piece 1/4 scale (quarter-scale) figures that could stand proudly next to the largest figures and statues that you own?

One of the hottest (no pun intended) One Piece Figuarts Zero figures ever has turned out to be the awesome Figuarts Zero Portgas D. Ace Cross Fire Battle Version figure that Bandai released at the start of 2014. If you missed out on that figure and don’t want to pay $200 for it on the aftermarket (or get an inferior counterfeit bootleg from Hong Kong), then you’re in luck! As the One Piece Figuarts Zero exclusive for the winter Tamashii Nations 2014 event, Bandai is bringing us a repaint of the coveted Ace: the Figuarts Zero Portgas D. Ace Battle Ver. Special Color Edition is now up for order!

After kicking off 2015 on the right foot with the intensely-anticipated One Piece Figuarts Zero Sabo figure, Bandai is going back to their old bag of tricks for their next release. Nobody asked for another Figuarts Zero Battle Version figure of a character who’s already had a Battle Ver. and been released countless times otherwise, but if we were going to get one anyway, we could have done a lot worse.

If there’s one thing that One Piece collectors can’t get enough of, it’s figures of Tony Tony Chopper (just ask any One Piece merchandiser–they’ll tell you)! And so, Bandai Japan has now opened up orders for their first One Piece Figuarts Zero 2015 limited exclusive figure: the One Piece Figuarts Zero Tony Tony Chopper Omaera Genkika Konoyaro Ver. figure (wow, that’s a real mouthful)! Ordinarily these Tamashii Web exclusives will cost you a fortune to import, but this specific Japan web-exclusive Figuarts Chopper is available for a great price in the United States–for now!

Alright, the worst-kept secret in all of One Piece is now officially out of the bag for both readers and watchers of One Piece: Sabo is alive!

We got our first glimpse of the grown-up version of Luffy’s only surviving brother in the One Piece 15th Anniversary Special two weeks ago, and now the Sabo figure floodgates can officially open! Bandai will be among the first companies to strike, as the Bandai One Piece Figuarts Zero figure is scheduled to be released in January 2015!

I try desperately hard to keep this site as spoiler-free as absolutely possible for One Piece fans who only watch the One Piece anime and don’t read the One Piece manga. Unfortunately, we’re about to come to a tsunami of One Piece figure announcements that’s going to make being spoiler-free ridiculously difficult.

If I have one big regret as far as One Piece collectibles go, it’s that the Bandai SH Figuarts One Piece figures line was a total flop. I love super-articulated figures, and it hurts me to this day that no super-articulated action figures of the whole Straw Hat Pirates crew exists.

MegaHouse surprised us at the Spring 2014 MegaHobby Expo, when they unexpectedly debuted an all-new version of an old favorite: Portgas D. Ace! There’s a lot of pressure on MegaHouse to make the One Piece POP 10th Anniversary Portgas D. Ace figure the best version of Ace ever, and at the Summer 2014 Wonder Festival, we got to see that they were well on their way to making this piece a success! And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived–the One Piece P.O.P Portgas D Ace 10th Anniversary figure is now up for order!